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Version: 2.0.0Rating: 10Date: 2018-06-26Votes: 18

Star is an awesome minimalist dream, lightweight, and super fast distribution based on Devuan. Can't get any faster or smaller memory footprint. Uses live-build with Debian/Devuan installer, coupled with a few applications OOTB to get a user up and going, not a bloated distro.

Configured for speed and boast several Wm's, Xfce also a netinstall distro.

Came across Star years ago while distro hopping, still using it now. The very best Linux has to offer.

Truly a minimalist approach to computer configuration, comes packed with a handful of needed applications. No need to pre-install the kitchen sink if not wanted by the user.

Welcome-screen (star-welcome) is a nifty tool to add some tools and applications, glad to see it in use still.

Star is a sophisticated, first class rated distribution and can't go wrong with Devuan as a base. My daily driver is Fluxbox and about 6 months ago upgraded to Ascii and then later about two months ago to Ceres without even a single error message and runs stable as Jessie. Ceres is the unstable branch of Devuan, yet the devs at Devuan is not making the same mistakes as Debian with premature releases creating a dependency nightmare.

Give Star a spin and might enjoy what you find!

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Version: 1.0.1Rating: 10Date: 2017-10-18Votes: 8

STAR is an excellent distribution, use it on my Dell 32 bit machine with JWM. Out of many 32 bit distros found STAR to be the fastest and beyond stable. Runs like a new PC.

Wifi? Ran a check and STAR comes with every wifi driver than Debian or Ubuntu does. Strange that someone might have issues other than it could be their router, or ISP causing the issues.

STAR is a minimalist distribution, no button or automatic notification of updates, very lame thinking such a creature with JWM. That is what the terminal is for. No automatic updating the menu, that is why it comes with a text editor and a .jwmrc file while other files with menu, etc are found in .config/jwm.

A minimalist distribution is not quite barebones but allows the user who should have skills efficient enough to configure the install to their liking.

STAR does the job, I'm happy and grateful for that!

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Version: 1.0.1Rating: 7Date: 2017-10-16Votes: 1

Lack of wifi support in any distro is a deal breaker for me, so I give it 7 for the general concept.

More lightweight distros, mean better options for the end user, this is a nice distro, just lacks some necessary drivers to be a good distro out of the box.

Worth a look.

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Version: 1.0.1Rating: 10Date: 2017-09-18Votes: 22

Have been using STAR for several years, both as Debian and Devuan. Use STAR openbox called Morbius, very minimalistic but has everything you need to build on.

Themes and icons are excellent, good looks from the start. Uses a welcome-screen to download additional apps depending on the users needs. Like this idea, not bloated with a lot of unwanted applications

Not a resource hog, very lean on CPU and memory usage, This distro is the fastest I've seen or used.

Devuan is relatively a new distribution, one must understand that the most knowledgeable and seasoned veterans from Debian forked to create Devuan. A little behind but better stable than a mess like Debian.

STAR was one of the first to create a Devuan derivative, my install has been there since i have been.t was an alpha release and upgraded without an issue. Very happy and content with a systemd-less distribution and trust it fully.

STAR has many Wm's and a DE (xfce) to choose from, give it a try and believe you will enjoy and be impressed too!